Improvement in traveller for spinning-ring



To all whom 'it maycoeern `:s'

` `hadto the accompanying drawings. To enable others skilled inthe art to make and'use i e dnt'ed glatte @time aww.

HoRATIo PEIRCE, or TAUNTON,',MAssACHUsETTs.

l `:1l/rimovmimm' IN TRAVELIIER P013 sPrNNINRING.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part orf the name.

Beit known'that I, HORATIO I1. PEIRGE, of Taunton, in the county olf Bristol, and State Aof Massachusettshhave invented a. new and improved Ring-Trav-` f eller; andI hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being my invention, I will proceed to describe'it'fully and particularly. h i

In order that'thedescription may be as clear and `explcitas possible, I will deseribet-he manner hitherto generally pursued in making 'ring-travellers, and the steel, with rounded edges, and of the requisite width and thickness, is obtained and cut perpeudicularly to the longitudiualaxis of the ribbon, into the desired or l required lengths, and bent around a mandrellof the y `proper form to give the requisite size and form to the ring-traveller. i y

This form or shape is that described and represented i iin the annexed drawing,fig. 3, in which4 it willbe seen,l

'1 that the points a` a, of both` sides of the ring-traveller,

are at right anglestolthe sides, caused by 'the'manner i in whichthe wire or ribbon is cut off, as above de'` scribed. i

There are several objections to this form of ringtraveller, among which are the following: y

The traveller is sprung uponvthe ring with milch difficulty.v V l l y Itis diicult to give them adesirable temper or i hardness, and yet leave them soft enough to be readily` i Sprunglupvu thel'ing- The square corners interfere `with the slipping of the yarn underthe ring-traveller' by the operators or spinn ners.4 These `square corners soon wear into thev ring i j on the inner and under side, unevenly, frequently causing an unsteady motion, which is liableto break the l I.

yarn. As these corners wear of?, the draught on the yarn is increased.

To obvia/te these and other apparent diculties, I

have devised a ring-traveller of the form or shape described in Figures l and 2. I use the same sort of` flattened metallic wire or metallic ribbon, butinstead of cutting it into pieces, the ends of which are perpendicular to the longitudinal centre of the ribbon, I clip the corners o, giving to the ends a rounded or elliptical or other desirable shape, asshown at b, by which the objectionable corners aie avoidedin 'the ring-traveller.

f The advantages attending the use of ring-travellers of this form are, in part, the following:

First, they are put on to the ring much easier. Second, they can be made of better temper, or harder than those of 'the old form.

Third, they wear upon the ring more uniformly.

Fourth, they can bemade heavier, andfwill conse- I quently wear longer; y Fifth, they secure a more uniform` draught on `the yam.

Sixth, the yarn can be. slipped underthem more 'aat' metal strip, as described, of the bent ends, whichv hold the traveller' upon the ring, substantially vas and `for the purposes shown and set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to 'this specication, before two subscribing witnesses.

HORATIO L. PEIROE.

Witnesses: N. D. ARNOLD, i

GEO. E. WILSON. 

